Man confesses to UES murder

January 6, 2009 8:06:34 AM PST

Eyewitness News

NEW YORK --

Police say a disheveled man with blood on his clothing confessed to fatally stabbing a woman he knew in her Upper East Side apartment building. Police responded to a call of a disorderly person inside the lobby of a tony apartment building at 1025 Fifth Avenue sometime after 7 a.m.Tuesday morning.

When they got there, they found a disheveled, intoxicated man with blood on his clothing.

NYPD took the man to a nearby hospital and helped him get cleaned up and say while there, the man suddenly confessed to police that he killed a woman.

Detectives responded to her apartment on East 104th Street, off Fifth Avenue, and found the woman, in her 30s, stabbed multiple times.